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I live my life trying to make the fun and adventuresome choices so when I am an old lady, rocking in a rocker on a front porch somewhere, I will have great memories to think about!

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 05.15.2013 @ 8:23 pm

There’s beer and then there’s BEER! I only drink one beer at a time and not very often, so when I drink a beer, I want it to be tasty and wonderful. I tend toward imported beers, and have a hard time understanding Miller Light, etc.

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 05.07.2013 @ 11:26 am

Checkmate! I bet you thought I couldn’t play chess, but I guess I am proving you wrong over and over again. Now that I’ve beaten you three times in a row, with a fourth win on the horizon, perhaps I have earned your chess respect. Who is the smartypants now?

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 04.23.2013 @ 7:41 pm

The vines were wrapping themselves around my heart, strangling my love little by little. When we first met, there was nothing around my heart but hope for the future.

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 04.04.2013 @ 7:00 pm

She fabricated that story she told you. Many people believe her lies, but I have long since stopped paying attention to anything she says. She is so good at fabricating, that I can’t tell fact from fiction, so I just dismiss her entirely!

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 04.01.2013 @ 1:06 pm

Bronzed muscular men on the beach make bronzed gorgeous women on the beach feel happy, and vice versa.

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 03.28.2013 @ 1:42 pm

There are many cities around the world, but the city that is most important to most of us is the city where we were born. God bless our home town!

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 03.17.2013 @ 12:48 pm

There are many cities around the world, but the city that is most important to most of us is the city where we live right now. God bless our home town!

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 03.17.2013 @ 12:44 pm

Knock, knock! Who’s there? The One Word Challenge! You knock my socks off! You are a knock-out.

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 02.27.2013 @ 6:27 pm

There is a compass in my heart which often points me to true North if I am paying attention. Sometimes the busy busy of this life creates too many outside distractions. I try to stay attuned as best as I can.

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 01.12.2013 @ 12:29 pm

I love to scatter good cheer with words, smiles and anything else I can think of. A Givings a compliment here and there makes me feel great. I once read that if you are thinking something nice about someone, you should say it to them.

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 12.21.2012 @ 7:23 pm

I do not object to many things, but I do object to violence and meanness. For some reason, meanness is especially hateful to me.

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 12.02.2012 @ 1:35 pm

I love to cook, especially new recipes. The thing is that I don’t cook very often. Why do I deprive myself of the fun of cooking? I just am not in the habit of it. Gosh darn it! I did cook dinner recently, and it was great — I recreated a dish I ate in a restaurant, and I was very proud.

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 12.01.2012 @ 1:44 pm

He needs to get over himself. He thinks that he is just too fabulous for words. He doesn’t realize that most people disdain his approach to living so selfishly. He would be amazed to know that while he thinks the world of himself, but his erstwhile friends think he is a jerk.

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 11.30.2012 @ 7:18 pm

The romance of life is quite extraordinary, and is always there and available to anyone. When life gets really dull, boring, and tough — find the ways to court yourself and put the romance back into it!

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 05.16.2012 @ 12:31 pm

That earring reminded me of Susan, who never wears a pair of earrings that match. I must remember to give her some of my odd ones. It’s fun to look at her face because her earrings are always interesting.

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 04.16.2012 @ 11:21 am

I want to be a generator of kindness. How schmaltzy is that? When I was a teenager, a friend told me she wanted to be kind when she was an adult, and I thought that was so admirable, but probably out of my reach. Now I know it is to out of anybody’s reach!

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 02.28.2012 @ 11:54 am

A labyrinth is not a maze. There are no tricks to it — walk slowly in, and walk slowly out. It is a form of meditative prayer. Or if you don’t like to pray, you can just clear your mind, be in the center, perhaps receive some inspiration and think about it on the way out. It’s a powerful experience no matter how you approach it.

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 02.12.2012 @ 5:59 pm

It’s savage the way some people are treated. What is amazing to me is that people can be inhumane to each other. I hope that we can learn from all of this and be better with each other.

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 01.09.2012 @ 11:25 am

The lilies were there in my Easter memories — at church, at the grocery store, in the florist’s window. They seemed to be a pure representation of what Easter was all about. So tall and proud and beautiful. I was never a lily.

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 01.08.2012 @ 3:54 pm

It would have been fun to have a dozen children and live in a great big house. I can just imagine how I might have dedicated a big part of my life to that. But we had a little house, and we stopped having children when we ran out of room for them. And when we ran out of money, too!

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 01.06.2012 @ 12:11 pm

We had champagne on New Year’s eve at our amazing and weird party. We had a person who is transgender, a person who is frequently homeless, a person who just found a job for the first time in years, an accordion player, a 94 year old amazing man, a retired school teacher and coach, and me, who prides herself on being weird. What a group, and what fun we had!

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 01.02.2012 @ 3:13 pm

I almost sat down on that cactus. You know the one. The old friend who was toxic over and over again, but who now wants to barge back into your life with platitudes of regret and loving promises. A cactus is a cactus is a cactus. I prefer roses.

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 12.29.2011 @ 3:27 pm

He was deaf to her entreaties. All she wanted was to be heard. Not just heard in the sense that he would listen to words, but heard in the sense that he would really “get” them, and have a feeling for what she was trying to tell him. Even after all these years, he seemed to never hear her — just nod his head, as if that was enough. One day, someone else would look into her eyes and know her — then she would be gone. The word he might understand then — goodbye.

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 12.26.2011 @ 3:47 am

There was a flood of tears, and then she sputtered — “I can’t believe you don’t love me any more!” He laughed and walked away. How could it be over in just a flash of time? She had felt that he was the love of her life. Through the tears, suddenly there was a rainbow — maybe her pot of gold was of her own making, and giving her power away to a jerk of a man was not the answer!

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 12.21.2011 @ 11:36 am

There are innumerable colors in my palette, and even though I am in my older youth, I still have many more colors to explore, color combinations, streaks, and mixtures! I used to think that life would get more boring when I got older, but I was wrong! Hooray!

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 12.13.2011 @ 12:55 pm

I view the circumstances of my life somewhat cheerfully. I have had my brick walls that I have crashed into, and the cliffs I have fallen off of, but mostly I have really had lots of fun, a lot of adventures, and been able to explore many possibilities. I would not change a thing!

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 12.09.2011 @ 5:09 pm

I remember, when I was a little kid, that it was popular for girls to collect and trade playing cards and it boys played marbles. I thought that both were fun, so I played marbles with the boys, and traded playing cards with the girls.

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 11.27.2011 @ 12:27 pm

I like to study people. I am fascinated by human nature. If I were allowed, I would ask people interminable questions — what’s in your closet? did you have fun dressing this morning? what do you like to eat? what do you do for fun? are you happy? if not, why not? what could you do to make your life a more exciting place to be?

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 11.22.2011 @ 3:54 pm

I am at the age where I am not very fond of rules. I didn’t like rules in my younger youth, and I don’t like them now (in my older youth). I guess I do like them for one reason: they are so fun to bend, break, and mess around with. It’s fun to get in just a little bit of trouble every now and again!

Posted By Carol Bailey Floyd On 11.20.2011 @ 6:27 pm